Product manager salary
What remote US product manager roles pay at each experience level, and where the next step up sits. All roles
Pay by experience level
Median posted pay by the experience each posting asks for. The role family is the base title plus the steps on the ladder below, 858 postings.
How pay is spread across postings
Each outline is one experience band. Taller means more postings at that pay. Dashed lines mark each band median.
Half of 5 to 10 year postings pay between $146,000 and $194,000, with a median of $169,000. The medians are $128,000 for 2 to 5 years, $169,000 for 5 to 10 years and $208,000 for 10+ years.
What each step up the ladder pays
Each bar runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile within one experience band, so it holds the middle half of postings. The dot is the median. A step needs 30 postings in a band before we draw it.
Among 5 to 10 year postings, the median moves from $145,000 for Product manager to $191,000 for Group, principal or lead product manager, a difference of $46,000.
| Step | 2 to 5 years | 5 to 10 years | 10+ years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product manager | $122,550middle half $108,849 to $140,000, n 82 | $145,000middle half $126,544 to $168,250, n 130 | not enough postings yetn 25 |
| Senior product manager | not enough postings yetn 27 | $173,000middle half $155,000 to $190,625, n 187 | $175,750middle half $145,000 to $208,875, n 48 |
| Group, principal or lead product manager | not enough postings yetn 4 | $190,925middle half $169,762 to $219,138, n 76 | $211,000middle half $190,950 to $235,471, n 105 |
| Director of product | not enough postings yetn 0 | not enough postings yetn 22 | $213,316middle half $185,000 to $249,869, n 124 |
| VP of product | not enough postings yetn 0 | not enough postings yetn 1 | $270,000middle half $215,000 to $290,000, n 33 |
How pay changes with job title
Each outline is one step of the ladder, and each posting counts once, in the highest step its title matches. A step needs 30 postings in the view to be drawn. Dashed lines mark medians.
For postings asking for 5 or more years, the median is $148,000 for Product manager and $268,000 for VP of product. Postings asking for 2 to 5 years are shown in the charts above.
| Step, 5 or more years | Median | n |
|---|---|---|
| Product manager | $147,500 | 155 |
| Senior product manager | $173,000 | 229 |
| Group, principal or lead product manager | $200,250 | 181 |
| Director of product | $208,750 | 146 |
| VP of product | $267,500 | 34 |
This view combines the 5 to 10 and 10+ bands, which come from the same continuous pulls. The 2 to 5 band is never combined with them.
Where this role leads
Two kinds of next move. Steps up the ladder compare the same experience band at both ends. Nearby roles compare whole role families.
Individual contributors and people managers
Median posted pay within each experience band. A people manager role has a management title or states direct reports or leading a team. Project, program and product manager titles count as individual contributor work unless the posting says it leads people.
Among 10+ year postings, people manager roles have a median of $230,000 and individual contributor roles $208,000, a gap of $23,000 in favor of managers.
| Experience | Individual contributor | People manager |
|---|---|---|
| 2 to 5 years | $128,166 (n 113) | not enough postings yet, n 0 |
| 5 to 10 years | $169,025 (n 408) | not enough postings yet, n 7 |
| 10+ years | $207,500 (n 277) | $230,000 (n 53) |
The skill groups this role asks for
Skills that tend to be listed together are grouped. The bar shows the share of this role's postings that list at least two skills from a group. Postings with no skills listed are left out.
Product management appears in 71% of the 858 postings that list skills, followed by agile and business analysis at 16%.
Product management
71% of postings, n 610- product management
- product strategy
- roadmap development
- product roadmap
- product lifecycle management
- data-driven decision making
The pay difference points in different directions across ladder steps, so none is shown.
Agile and business analysis
16% of postings, n 140- jira
- agile
- scrum
- agile methodologies
- user stories
- confluence
Among 5 to 10 year postings, those with this group have a median pay about $28,000 lower than those without, compared within the same ladder step (37 with, 93 without, Product manager).
Pay comparisons show association and not cause. Postings that ask for a skill group may differ in employer, industry or the work itself, and listing a skill does not guarantee the raise. A comparison appears only for 5 to 10 years of experience, within one ladder step, with at least 30 postings with and without the group.
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How wide posted pay ranges are
Median gap between the top and bottom of the range, within each experience band. Postings with a single figure are left out.
A typical 5 to 10 year posting's range spans $42,000 from bottom to top, so the top is about 1.31 times the bottom.
| Experience | Median range width | Top as a multiple of bottom | n |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 to 5 years | $33,000 | 1.27 | 111 |
| 5 to 10 years | $42,000 | 1.31 | 399 |
| 10+ years | $51,000 | 1.28 | 323 |
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